Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

34.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.